Who's the Best Villain?

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Shylock and Don Jon were two great villains for their ability to put a real damper on a comedic plot... :wink:
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Mr. Piebald is a pretty deviant lobo in this novel that I am re-reading at the moment. He used to have the psi-ability to detonate things at will: He could literally make the atoms burst apart on a nuclei level!! But that was before he was lobotomized of course. You see, he was a criminal and forced into becoming a "lobo", rendering him impotent in his psi-ability. A lobotomy did not however take away his desire to find a way to reverse the lobo process and gain his psi back! A venture he won't hesitate torturing other psi-mutants in succeeding at.
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Umbridge definitely! I disliked Voldemort but I wanted that woman dead. Hmm for best villain, I would say Dr. Lector from silence of the lambs since he was so enigmatic, and interesting.
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Piebald... Yet another new addition to the discussion! What is the book series called, Eve-Olsen2005?

Mickaila: Hannibal is definitely fascinating in many ways... Well, except for the part of him that craves to eat people... :| :lol:

Umbridge is one of the most maddening villains I've encountered. She sucks the life out of EVERYTHING!!!
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I thought the best villain was Professor Snape. Everyone thinks he hates Harry and that he is just mean. If you have read the series it keeps you guessing who's side is he really on. He was a complete double, double agent. If you follow the movies you will miss the subtle change when he meets his end and you find out he truly loved Lilly and was protecting her son. It kept me guessing and that makes a great villain in my opinion. But when you give a touch of human softness in the end that blows it away. Was he evil or what?
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Recently, I read the Foresight, the first book Deen Ferrell's Cryptic Spaces. I can genuinely say that its villain is one of the more memorable antagonists I've seen in a long while. For all that he only really appears for a few pages in the book, his presence was genuinely frightening. I was utterly creeped out at his grotesque powers. I definitely recommend that book for anyone who likes really suspenseful adventure and technology so advanced it seems like magic.
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Sounds exciting!

I'm thinking... Wednesday Addams... Aint she cute? :wink:
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Voldemort from Harry Potter!
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Enders game...peter. he is amazing as terrible all in one. its a beautiful combination.
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Anybody here who's read "Shatter Me" has come into contact with a great villain. :wink: Warner was truly sinister and... well... fascinating... :| What?
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The first great feature film — the one that synthesized the cinematic language and was the top-grossing movie for decades, until another Civil War drama, Gone With the Wind, surpassed it — is also in parts a vilely racist enterprise. D.W. Griffith painted his Negroes and mulattos (literally, since most of the actors were whites in blackface) as stupid, brutal, lecherous and duplicitous. The film portrays blacks as savages who lusted after white women, were enfranchised through voter fraud and turned the state legislatures into pig sties. The only recourse for honorable white men was to form the Ku Klux Klan! Lynch is a mulatto in cahoots with an abolitionist; it is he who orders a crackdown on the Klan and gets what Griffith sees as a villain’s just deserts. That this landmark film should be so rich in black dastards is a shame that still haunts the screen.
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I don't know if she counts as a "villain" per se, but I really liked Anita Proteus from Vonnegut's Player Piano. Even though she's manipulative, adulterous, etc. she was also really vulnerable, and her morally gray antics had, in the long run, as negative effect on her as they did on everyone else. She wasn't really a bad person, just the product of a bad society, and, above all, I wished she could've been happy at the end (though she isn't :( )
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The best villain is the one who is never revealed it allows your mind to truly be haunted by your thoughts of what the villain is, as was the case in Bird Box
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Some of my favorites include Dorothy from Dorothy Must Die, Leck from the Graceling series, and Umbridge from the Harry Potter series. Dorothy and Umbridge are similar in my mind, because they are both "bubbles and rainbows" villians. They ACT perfectly sweet and kind, but they are both so twisted and evil, which makes for a very interesting read.
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rjhaug wrote:I thought the best villain was Professor Snape. Everyone thinks he hates Harry and that he is just mean. If you have read the series it keeps you guessing who's side is he really on. He was a complete double, double agent. If you follow the movies you will miss the subtle change when he meets his end and you find out he truly loved Lilly and was protecting her son. It kept me guessing and that makes a great villain in my opinion. But when you give a touch of human softness in the end that blows it away. Was he evil or what?
I completely agree. Severus Snape is definitely one of the best villains out there. I'd also go for Loki (no, not the Marvel version). He's a cunning and selfish double-crossing traitor. And great fun to read about. He is kind of like Snape in a way - you never quite know where he stands and what he'll do next or if he means what he says...
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